Ancient Syria
On the shore of what body of water is Syria located?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This 1916 agreement secretly divided Arab lands between France and Britain.
What is the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
This person led Syria for 30 years starting in 1970.
Who is Hafez al-Assad?
The Syrian Civil War began after protests in this year.
What is 2011?
This part of the population of Syria has been affected in terms of displacement.
What is that over half of the population has been forced to flee their homes?
Name one of the oldest Syrian cities excavated, thought to date back to 3,000 B.C.
What is Ebla?
These two countries were the primary supporters of the Assad regime.
What are Russia and Iran?
This was Bashar al-Assad's original profession before becoming president.
What is medicine (medical student)?
This group of soldiers formed to oppose the Assad regime in the early stages of the war.
What is the Free Syrian Army (FSA)?
This natural disaster in 2023 made the humanitarian situation in Syria even worse.
What is an earthquake?
This city is where the apostle Paul had his vision.
What is Damascus?
This international group began bombing ISIS targets in Syria in 2014.
What is the U.S.-led coalition?
This 1982 event involved a brutal government crackdown on an uprising in Hama.
What is the Muslim Brotherhood rebellion?
This extremist group became involved in the conflict and took over parts of Syria and Iraq.
What is ISIS (Islamic State)?
This international organization has documented civilian casualties and rights violations in Syria.
What is the United Nations?
Name three empires that ruled ancient Syria.
What are the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Romans?
This European country has provided asylum to the most Syrian refugees.
What is Germany?
This member of the Assad family was originally expected to take power before dying in a car crash.
Who is Bassel al-Assad?
These were some root causes of the Syrian uprising. Name at least two.
What are political oppression, unemployment, and lack of freedom?
This region in Syria has become a key destination for displaced people and refugees.
What is northwestern Syria (especially Idlib)?
What major empire ruled Syria until 1918?
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Name one country that has supported Syrian rebel groups.
What is Turkey? (Other possible answers: U.S., U.K., France, Saudi Arabia)
This constitutional change allowed Bashar al-Assad to become president at a younger age.
What is lowering the presidential age minimum from 40 to 34?
This prompted the U.S. to carry out its first direct military strike on Syrian government forces.
What is a chemical weapons attack on civilians?
This has been the global impact of the Syrian refugee crisis.
What is massive displacement across the Middle East and Europe, straining resources and services?